ELIZABETH A. HUGO-COETZEEDepartment of Acarology, National Museum, PO Box 266, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa.
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

A new genus of the mite family Scutacaridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Trinervitermes trinervoides (Isoptera: Termitidae) from South Africa

ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV, ELIZABETH A. HUGO-COETZEE, SERGEY G. ERMILOV

Abstract

A new monotypic genus of scutacarid mites, Gerdalbertia gen. nov. (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Scutacaridae), with type species G. elongata sp. nov. is described from nests of and phoretic on termites, Trinervitermes trinervoides (Sjostedt, 1911)(Isoptera: Termitidae), from South Africa. The taxonomic position of the new genus is discussed.

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